If your attitude to combat is “We’re the player characters! CHARGE!” you’d better bring plenty of paper, because you’ll be rolling up a lot of new characters. You’ll have to fight, but like any army, make the conditions as favorable as you can. We have only a few hours to play make the most of it.įourth – COMBAT IS DANGEROUS. The game is a game of exploration to find treasure to explore, you have to MOVE. When the players discuss things, do so quietly in short, high content sentences. For instance, if the players get into an argument and start shouting, it means that the player characters are standing deep in some monster-filled dungeon screaming at the top of their lungs, drawing wandering monsters by the dozen. Third – GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER! This game is run in a very simulation-heavy way. It’s not all about you, singular it’s about you, plural. Similarly, the magic users represent too valuable a resource to allow to go to waste for the fighters. The magic users have heavy firepower and can easily dispose of a threat much faster than the fighters can but if the fighters don’t protect the magic users, the magic users are going to be useless. These roles, in this world and in these rules, are derived from the traditional composition of medieval armies heavy troops hold the line, light troops flank, and missile troops fire from a safe vantage because if they get meleed they’re dead. You are part of a team and fulfill your role in that team. The game is not all about how wonderful your character is. Our characters were entirely self-directing. Then we wondered “What’s over on the other side of those hills,” and we started doing outdoor adventures. We were in a game to explore, and we did. No quests to rescue the princess, no magical doohickey to throw into the Zazu Pitts of Fordor, no mysterious strangers meeting you in an inn.
#Old guard 1975 empire of the petal throne tekumel full#
You’re a bunch of guys exploring an old abandoned wizard’s castle full of monsters and treasure and stuff.” In October of 1972, Rob Kuntz introduced me to what would become OD&D by saying “Gary’s got this neat new game called Greyhawk. There are also differences in the way I run D&D, no matter what the edition.įirst – YOU MUST BE SELF MOTIVATING. Yes, Virginia, there are really very substantial differences between Original Dungeons & Dragons (OD&D) and later editions.
Hell, I’ve been running D&D since before it was published.
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